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Bruce “U. Utah” Phillips — folk
singer, historian, activist, and longtime member of the Industrial Workers
of the World — will be the featured performer at a program to honor
one of labor’s best known agitators and organizers: Mary Harris
Jones, better known as Mother Jones. This Sunday, Oct. 14, the Springfield-based Mother
Jones Foundation will hold its 22nd annual fundraising dinner. This
year’s theme is “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All.”
The event begins at 5 p.m. at the University of
Illinois at Springfield, in the lower level of the Public Affairs Center.
Tickets for the dinner cost $25; the program, which starts at 7 p.m., is
free. At 11 a.m. on the same day, a special program will be
presented at the Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive. Organizers say that
seniors will be on hand to tell stories about the 1930s and ’40s,
when thousands flocked to the cemetery to celebrate the life and work of
Mother Jones, who died in 1930.
Contact R.L. Nave at rnave@illinoistimes.com.
This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2007.
